November 1, 2003 Stories for wee readers

Very small children love stories and also love a book to call their own. Bible for Me by Andy Holmes, illustrated by Ralph Voltz (Tommy Nelson, $15.99), presents 12 biblical stories simply and vividly, printed in a...

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November 1, 2003 Stories help communicate deep truths

Nancy Cocks listens to children and takes them seriously. Their thoughts and what they are experiencing of life all around them is where their questions about God take root. She believes that storytelling is a way of...

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November 1, 2003 Is the organ set for a comeback?

All the Stops , a history of the pipe organ's development in America in the last two centuries, brings back childhood memories. My grandfather, George H. Stevenson, played the "mighty Wurlitzers" in the silent movie...

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November 1, 2003 New from ABC Publishing

Oceans of Grief and Healing WatersA story of Loss and Recoveryby Marian Jean Haggerty112 pages, $16.95 Struggling with ForgivenessStories from People and Communitiesby David Self200 pages, $19.95 Praise, My SoulThe...

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November 1, 2003 When personal faith and theology meet

Every now and then an exceptionable book appears in the market place and such is After the Locusts, Letters from a Landscape of Faith , by Denise M. Ackermann. She is a white South African feminist theologian, part...

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November 1, 2003 The Reverend is a Sleuth

Readers who like their mystery novels to feature priestly or monastic sleuths have a lot of choice these days. From G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, who appeared in 1910, to Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael and Phil Rickman's...

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November 1, 2003 Facing chronic illnesses with hope

Grace Casselman's Knocked Off My Knees is a good source of education for someone diagnosed with lupus but, more importantly, it is a personal story which speaks to the heart and soul of the human condition when faced with...

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October 1, 2003 Books remind: this is the only church we have

Anglicans have always loved tranquillity and too often that has meant acquiescence to complacency. But today Anglicans have to be troubled Christians. Controversies are rampant and threats of division abound. Worst of all is...

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September 1, 2003 War chaplain pens book

Canon Laurence F. Wilmot, 92, of the diocese of Rupert's Land, has written a memoir of his time as an Anglican chaplain during the last years of the Second World War. Through the Hitler Line: Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain was...

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September 1, 2003 User’s guide to prayer book falls short of its promise

More than two generations after the adoption of the 728-page 1959 Canadian Book of Common Prayer (BCP), almost a full generation after the 1985 introduction of the 928-page Book of Alternative Services, a whole people have been...

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